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Too cold here in Middle Tenn. today! 4 degrees was the low. How happy do you think we are??? Esp. if you are a teacher!

Rae and Scott's Wedding Shower

Congratulations to Scott and Rae Boutte'! We had a great time at the wedding shower!! Myself, Carolyn, Sandra, Laura, Susan P., Penny and Treva hosted the shower for them. We have all worked together at some point during our careers whether it be in the preschool lab at the high school or coaching together for the dance team. Thanks to everyone who attended! It was just like a reunion. Everyone had a great time catching up and visiting with one another.
Here's the proud dad and mom --aka- Tommy and Patti with Scott and Rae.

We thought our table decorations looked great and very classy. Patti helped us with the flower decorations! I know we tried to tell her that she is the mother of the bride and DID NOT need to do that but.... you know Patti!! LOL!
Rae and Scott got sooooo many nice gifts. I would say that she has just about all of her stainless and her dishes now.


Here is the gift that I had Brandie make from Dream Custom Artwork blog. I just love it! I am thinking about getting me one for myself for our home. We ended up putting it at the guest register table. I think I have a picture on down of that.

More pretty table decorations! Joy from Simply Joy Catering made the great cake. We used the colors pale yellow and white for the shower. Take a look at her blog -- http://www.simplyjoycatering.blogspot.com/ and check out the cake on her blog header. It was beautiful!

Here's Meagan, Rae's sister-in-law and best friend along with Lauren. I am thankful to have Meagan and her husband, aka - Charlie Clarke in the boro in case Lauren needs them. We all have fun at the "Better Than Nothin" place of Tommy and Patti's during the summer. That's were I hang out in my floating chair! LOL!

Isn't this pretty?

I absolutely love this picture!! Rae was having such a good time visiting with friends at the shower that she had not seen in such a long time, that we finally told Scott that he was going to have to start opening or we would never get through! Needless to say.....I think he had a great time!

The all smiles kitchen crew helping out! Sandra, Susan, Laura and Carolyn

I really liked this picture of mother and daughter!

Family friends! Melinda and JoAnn

and more friends!

It was a great day enjoyed by all! Rae and Scott we wish you a life-time of happiness together!

We love you all!

Lauren has found her look-alike!!

Lauren called me today all excited to tell me that she had found her long lost "twin" LOL!! Someone had come into the store where she works and had asked her if she knew this particular girl and of course she said no. She actually lives in the same town that Lauren goes to college and she is a senior this year at a high school there. Their facial features are sooooo alike that it is scary!!! I guess we would know what Lauren would look like if she had darker hair !!! Opps better verify that my daughter is on the bottom and her look alike is at the top if you needed to know!

What do you think????

Wedding Shower Pics Coming Soon!

Hopefully sometime tomorrow I will be able to post the wedding shower pictures of Scott and Rae "Clarke" Boutte'. We had a great shower for the newly married couple this past Sunday. My pictures turned out great and I can't wait to share them with you.

Until then you'll just have to keep checking back!! LOL!

In the mean time, you can check out Dawn Winton's blog and see her newly posted engagement pictures of Scott and Rae! Just click on my link to the right.

So Many Sick at this time......

Goodness there seems to be so many family members of those who I am friends with very sick at this time or hurting. Please keep the following people and family members in your prayers at this time.

Hazel Griffith - Joy Tubb's mom she has a compression fracture in her lower back. She is 85 and in a lot of pain and cannot hardly walk. She is scheduled to go to Nashville later this week.

Katie "Pooh" Tubb pulled a Leah Grandey yesterday and bruised her tailbone real bad. Thank goodness is it not broken but she is still in as much pain as if it were broken. She had to come and borrow a nice cushion that Leah had to use today. Hopefully it will help. That kind of injury just takes time to heal. Just be patient Katie.

The Mark and Debbie Haley family - Mark's dad, Harris and Debbie's mom, Frances are in the hospital at this time.

The Joe Adam's family - Joe is in very serious condition right now and needs many prayers. His wife is Tommye and daughters Cindy and Carol.

More Prayers please

My dear friend Debbie @ Haley's Happenings blog's mom is in the hospital at this time with a pretty serious condition. Please keep her mom and family in your prayers at this time that she may have a healthy and speedy recovery.

Prayer Works!

We are all rejoicing this evening at the good news that Andy's "nerve racking" (to say it mildly) PET SCAN came back CLEAR late this afternoon. The family was not expecting the results until tomorrow. Prayer does work!! If you have ever doubted that before in your life, you need to see what it has done for this family over the past year!! Plus it has given us all a great gift as well knowing that prayers ARE ANSWERED!

Look out Mickey Mouse, Andy and his family are headed your way in a couple of weeks!! What a great way to celebrate this victory over an evil cancer in the Magic Kingdom!

Good Luck Ms. Toree!!

Ms. Torre from The Craven 5 blog, will be starting her student teaching this semester. She did a great job in my classroom and we know that she is going to be an excellent teacher when her goal is completed.

Good Luck Toree! If you need anything, you know where to find me!

Florida Header

Well I just couldn't resist changing my header back to our good times that we had in Florida this summer. This cold weather makes me wish that summer would be just around the corner.

In this picture other than my family is Leah's best friend, Hayley and Scott, Lauren's boyfriend.

We will always cherish our good family memories that is for sure!

Thanks to my friend Joy!

I just wanted to say a big thank you to one of my best friends, Joy who gave me a lesson on how to change my background to some of the pretty backgrounds that some of my blogging friends have on their blogs. I have wanted to do this for some time but time to sit down any length of time and learn how to do it was the problem. Today was a perfect day. We both we trying to update our blogs just a little. Thanks so much Joy for helping me out!

She snapped this picture last night at our churches New Years Eve get together after church. We have been friends since our children were 9 years old and now their 21 and soon to be 21.

She got me the necklace I have on for Christmas with my initial and on the back it has Ya Ya Sisters!! We have had a lot of memories together with our families.

Joy has always told me on New Year's Day that I did not need to wash any clothes that I would have bad luck all year if I did. Well I am NOT superstitious so I have always washed clothes on New Years and things seemed to be okay for me thru the year. Well last night I told Joy that she better wash clothes on New Year's because she has not had any GOOD LUCK of any kind for the past 2 years!! That she better take after me and wash those clothes!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

Nice Comments

Thanks to all of you who have made such nice comments on my Christmas pictures!! For some reason they are not showing up on my comments though when I clicked on it to publish them!
If you have time and would like to leave another message, please do so and I will see if I can figure out what is not working right!
It is probably something that "I" am not doing right! LOL!

Happy New Year to all my Blogging buddies!

Christmas at Gran's

Ho! Ho! Ho! Look who stopped by to see Gran!

Gran you won't be able to put a magnet over your face on here like you do on the refrigerator! LOL! This is a good picture I think!

We always take a grandchildren shot for my mother every year. She like to compare and see how everyone has changed from one year to the next! Trevor, Chelsea, Lauren, Leah and Marcus are all excited about Christmas. Chelsea is 6 weeks older than Leah (16) and Trevor and Marcus are twins and in the 8th grade.

Christmas Sugar Cookies! Yum! Yum!

As you can see we had a fun-filled day cutting out Christmas cookies and then decorating them! We have not done this in forever it seemed! Lauren now knows a good self-help skill --- she now knows how to roll out dough with the flour and rolling pin!

Lauren, Scott and Leah had the best time decorating their Gingerbread cookie!

They wanted to have a competition to see which one would win the best decorated so.....they asked my husband to judge (because he was not around when they did this). The winning Gingerbread cookies was.......

SCOTT'S!!! If you notice, his cookie even had stripped pants on!

Lauren's and Leah's was great as well. We all had a blast!

Lauren had fun decorating a gingerbread man for her Dad. He works out at the gym so Lauren made his cookie have "a six pack", arm muscles and added some extra hair on top where his actually is!! LOL! I decorated my own gingerbread mom. Nothing special as you can see but did add some white hair which I have a little of right now!

More Christmas Memories!

Lauren is playing Guitar Hero on Leah's Nintendo DS, Leah, Rachel and Scott are all smiles. I wonder if Santa brought Scott some new jeans for Christmas??? LOL!

Hummmm?? Wonder what they're up to?

Travis, Scott, Lauren, Rachel and Austin wish Susan would stop making pictures!! LOL!

All ages can play with a Nintendo DS!! Keeps them busy for hours!

Here's Lauren with Granny and Austin

Wonder if Tyler is pinching his brother? Bet you can see those tonsils if you look close enough!

Christmas smiles are worth a thousand words!
Can you tell these two are brothers?

Good Family Times at Christmas!

My husbands side of the family took a minute to gather outside for a family shot. It was so beautiful here in Tennessee on Christmas Day! Look at those sweet smiles of the little ones! Just precious aren't they?This is not all of our family. We sure did miss -- Shane, Kristen, Elizabeth, Ryan, Mike, Debbie, Katherine and her family and Jessica and her family!! Maybe we can all be together soon and get another family

shot with everyone!
Here's our family with Joey's mother and step-father. We were so glad that Scott, Lauren's boyfriend could be here too to enjoy the day and all the excitement!
I will post more pictures later. I am still trying to figure my new camera out and how to download these pics to the blog!

Yippeeee it's finally here!! We sure do hope that your family has a great day today and you get everything that you wanted and lots of that good ole Christmas cookin'!!

Guess what I got for Christmas???? a new digital camera!! I will be posting Christmas pictures soon!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Santa will soon be on his way!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone is finishing up those last minute gifts that they need to purchase. Only 2 days left ya know. However, you may be one of those early bird shoppers and you may already be finished and sitting back and relaxing while some of us are running around like a chicken with his head cut off!!

I am almost finished. I just have one more gift to buy and unfortunately I have to go out of town to get it! Ugh! I am planning on getting up early in the morning and heading out and hoping to be back before noon.

I started to post some pictures that I made today and Lauren left the cord to my camera at her apartment in M'boro so I could not download my pictures tonight. I was so disappointed because I had not gotten to post in awhile and I had some really cute pictures of our day decorating sugar cookies. Oh well, I guess I will post as soon as I get the cord!

Hope everyone has a peaceful day tomorrow! Our thoughts and prayers are with the Preslie Slatton family at this time. She is an 11 year old girl who past away today from and extended illness. She attended Eastside Elem. for awhile. I did not know her personally but my heart goes out to the family. What a terrible lose to loose a child esp. during this time of year.

Christmas Break is almost here!

Yippeeeee!! I think I am as excited about this Christmas break as the children are!! We are down to having on 4 1/2 days left of school. The bad news is for me is that I have not finished all my shopping yet! I have got to have to time to get busy and finish. I have been working at a part time job as well as teaching and my time has gotten very very thin to do anything else. That is why is has been so long since I have been able to post anything on my blog. I have been just too pooped to do anything except read blogs and catch up that way!

Ya'll have a good week and maybe when we are on break I will have more time to update you on things happening in my desperately seeking life!!

Sending prayers

I would like everyone to keep my friend, Joy in your prayers on Friday. She will be having a much needed outpatient knee surgery Friday afternoon. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery! We sure hope this helps surgery and she will be able to get around like she did before she fell.